Legal Services

We provide a new perspective of legal advice to companies and individuals offering a multidisciplinary approach. Our perspective reaches the legal aspects as well as the economic and tax implications for your business, given by our group of professionals made up of experienced lawyers and CPAs working together.

Our practice areas are the following:

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Banking and Capital Markets

The Banking and Capital Markets team advices in complex structured finance transactions, capital markets, project finance, loans, banking, M&A, restructuring, foreign exchange and regulatory matters, including administrative regulatory proceedings at the National Securities Commission, Buenos Aires Stock Exchange and the Superintendence of Insurance.

The services provided include, the following:

• Secured and unsecured financing and credit lines.
• Sovereign and sub-sovereign debt.
• Multilateral and export agencies financing.
• Commercial financing.
• Leasing and other asset based financings.
• Structured financing.
• Project finance.
• Leveraged buyouts and acquisition financing.
• Negotiation of loans and debt restructuring.
• Real estate financing.
• Securitizations and guarantee trusts.
• Private equity, mutual, pension, investment and direct investment funds.
• Restructuring.
• Syndicated loans.

Labor and Employment

We advise our clients both in individual and collective labor.

The services provided include the following:

• Development and implementation of structures for staffing, salaries, sales forces, commission structures, multiple employment and employment regulations.
• Drafting of sanctions, dismissals and notices required to communicate or respond to the employee.
• Reorganizations and restructuring, massive dismissals, voluntary retirement.
• Assistance in the negotiation with employees, review of final settlements and drafting of agreements.
• Due diligence reports to assess the compliance with labor laws, and the detection of contingencies, to determine off-balance accounts in acquisition processes.
• Localization of international policies to comply with Argentine law.
• Expatriates matters and compensation.

Enviromental

We advise our clients in matters related to environment, health and safety at work, handling a wide range of environmental matters, from due diligence, litigation, regulatory issues and other environmental matters of commercial transactions.

The services provided include the following:

• Counseling to prevent, avoid or diminish contingencies.
• Regulatory matters.
• Advice on commercial transactions in matters related to this practice.
• Litigation on environmental matters in administrative agencies and judicial courts, in all stages and jurisdictions, including the Supreme Court.
• Environmental legal due diligence.
• Advice on productive projects, conducting environmental impact assessments and permitting.
• Drafting of compliance programs and counseling on remediation and industrial reconversion.
• In-house training on environmental matters.

Litigation and Arbitration

Our firm main goal is to resolve current and potential judicial disputes which affect our clients, in all jurisdictions, as well as the Supreme Court.

The matters covered by the team are the following:

• Civil and commercial litigation
• Class actions
• Corporate disputes
• Product liability.
• Civil liability cases.
• Antitrust cases.
• Insurance litigation.
• Enforcement of foreign judgments and awards in Argentina.
• Bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, including debt recovery.
• Administrative proceedings.
• Restructuring

Insurance

Our firm provides the following services:

• Regulatory issues.
• Handling of workmen compensation insurance portfolios (ART).
• Handling of property and casualty insurance portfolios
• Development of life and annuities insurance products.
• M&A and portfolio transfers.